Data Scientist, Transparency & Observability - Trust and Safety
- Locations
- San Jose, United States of America · New York, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $179,200 – $353,600 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Data & Analytics
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $220k to $310k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 5+ years · posts $179k to $354k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Data science work on Trust & Safety measurement for a large short-video platform, building metrics and monitoring that show how enforcement systems perform across products and content types. The Transparency & Observability team supports internal decisions, external transparency reporting, and the quality and reliability of T&S data.
What you'd do
- Design metrics that measure T&S enforcement across different products and content types.
- Build dashboards and monitoring solutions that surface actionable insights into platform safety.
- Set up automated anomaly detection and alerts so data or operational problems surface early.
- Investigate data issues, find root causes, and improve data quality processes.
- Partner with engineering to strengthen T&S data reliability and governance.
- Explore AI-powered approaches to monitoring model performance and their effect on platform safety.
What it asks for
- Five or more years in data science, analytics, data engineering, or an adjacent quantitative field.
- Strong SQL and experience with large-scale data platforms such as Hive or Spark.
- Proficiency in Python or R.
- Experience designing metrics and building dashboards or reporting tools.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field such as statistics, computer science, math, engineering, or economics.
Terms in this role
- Transparency report.
- A published account of how a service enforced its rules over a period: removals, appeals, government requests. The DSA requires them in the EU.
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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